basilwhite

Finding a better word for a joke:

I have a new joke with the word "war," but the word "war" doesn't fit the pacing, and isn't quite what I mean. It also rhymes with another line.

So I use Wikitionary's "What links here" link for the word "war."

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/war

From this I get "pillage," a much closer word to what I mean, paces better, and doesn't rhyme.

This resource is my new thesaurus, because it includes associations that are different forms of speech whereas most old-school thesauri stick with the same form of speech as the referenced word.

Discuss.

Kottke.org's best links of 2005.

http://www.kottke.org/05/12/the-best-links-2005

My favorites:

David Foster Wallace 2005 Commencement address - http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html

40 Things That Only Happen In Movies - http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/features/20moviethings.htm

I am Rocky Balboa - http://theteatime.free.fr/talc/rocky.html

Caption the tuxedoed man holding a sewing machine in front of a wrecked UPS truck - http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasygoat/46706.html